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This week's news
Selected links to firefighter workplace, industrial, technology and OHS news stories across the last seven days.
Australia
Auswide: Remembering 9/11
 US and Australian Firefighters start their run Across America.
- Aussie accents tougher than the heat.
WA: Residents angry at fire report dismissal
About 100 Toodyay residents attend meeting to discuss the findings of the investigation into the fire that destroyed 38 homes in the town.
- Western Power should be forced to pay.
- Toodyay fire fight.
- Western Power rejects fire report.
- New Toodyay fire report brings hope to residents.
Vic: Bushfires Royal Commission final report and bushfires roundup:
- Bushfires report omits important evidence says QC.
-Vic Opposition wants more firefighters.
-Former CFA head apologises over Black Saturday.
-Nixon reflects on bushfire recovery role.
- Former Hawthorn boss gets bushfire top job.
Qld: Residents brace for possible grassfire evacuation
Police have declared an emergency at Willowbank, west of Brisbane, where a large grassfire is burning out of control.
- Ipswich fire burns 200 acres.
- Authorities on stand-by for more grassfires.
NSW: 100 firefighters battle factory blaze
Several buildings are under threat from a large factory fire in Sydney's west.
NSW: Call for more hazard reduction burn funds
The Rural Fire Service Association is calling for more funding for hazard reduction burning in New South Wales.
International
Canada: Nine fallen firefighters to be honoured
“It is a stark reminder that firefighting continues to be a hazardous profession."
China: Fireworks factory blast leaves at least 13 dead
Nearly 2000 firefighters, soldiers and police and 62 fire trucks sent to completely extinguish the fire and search for the survivors.
Russia: Wildfires shrink, while temperatures cool in Moscow
Russian officials say firefighters have had success containing wildfires throughout the country.
- Russia: firefighters battle blaze near main nuclear research site.
- US Response to Fires in Russia.
- California sends firefighting supplies to Russia.
- Polish firefighters help fight fires in Russia.
- Russia praises Bulgaria's fire-fighting.
- Putin: firefighter for a day.
- Russia's peatland fires seen burning for months.
UK: Warning to London firefighters over shift-change plans
London's firefighters have been told they face being sacked if they do not agree to work new shift patterns.
- All London firefighters face sack.
USA: Giant Fire Set Pace for Forest Service
Each year major wildfires in America's West are fought like military battles: These often epic campaigns are largely the result of the Great Fire of 1910. This is the 100th anniversary of the Aug. 20-21 firestorm.
- The big burn of 1910: 'A thousand year event'.
Spain / Portugal: Two firefighters die in Spanish wildfire
- Silent demonstration for dead firefighters.
- Spain, Portugal combat 19 wildfires as cooler weather arrives to ease firefighting.
- Portuguese firefighters curb national park blaze.
USA: Equipment stolen while firefighters battle Newark fire
Investigators try to figure who stole equipment as firefighters battled the blaze.
Nigeria: Truck explosion kills 20
A firefighter in Lagos, Fadipe Idowi, says the collision caused an instant inferno and chaos as more drivers lost control.
USA: House to force firefighters to join union – right wing rant
In July the House passed a bill that would force every firefighter, policeman and first responder to join a Union.
China: Toxic gas leak in in China, 2000 evacuated
PTI A toxic gas leak from a chemical plant in east China has left five firefighters ill and forced the evacuation of more than 2000 residents.
USA: Speed simulator teaches firefighters speed and safety
The driving simulator was purchased with a grant from homeland security and the assistance to firefighters grant program.
Iceland: Firefighters strike again
A meeting between representatives of firefighters, ambulance crews and local authorities ended Friday morning without a new pay agreement.
USA: Firefighters Union says lives are in danger
Drawing new attention to their opposition to staffing shortages, Los Angeles firefighters on Friday said lives were in danger.
UK(Scotland): Chemical waste dumped
Fife firefighters were called to dispose of potentially hazardous chemical waste which was dumped.
USA: 8 Detroit Firemen injured, No EMS units available
- Four injured Detroit firefighters still hospitalised.
USA: Firefighters hurt as ladder hits wire
Three Fairfax County firefighters injured when fire engine ladder strikes two power lines.
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